Podcasts by A Lot You Got to Holler
Chicago architecture, urbanism, and design, brought to you by Newcity.
Further podcasts by Newcity Design Editor Ben Schulman and Zach Mortice
Podcast on the topic Design
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EP 15: The Night Chicago Died from 2017-06-27T21:11:17
A Lot You Got to Holler is dead! For our last episode, we look ahead to Chicago architecture and urbanism to come: The Obama Library! 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial! Neoliberalism! Ben lets ...
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EP 13: When Does the Present Become the Past? Talking Preservation with Lisa DiChiera of Landmarks Illinois from 2017-05-16T16:33:47
Designing Urban Policy with Katherine Darnstadt from 2017-03-15T15:18:19
Katherine Darnstadt's architecture firm Latent Design creates objects and urban systems, but it's biggest victories have come from pulling the upstream policy levers that set the context for wha...
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EP 12: Who was Chicago's Edgar Miller? from 2017-02-23T17:01:15
Edgar Miller is perhaps the most overlooked artist in the Chicago canon. Art was everywhere and everything to Miller, who used the city as his canvas through painting, woodworking, stained glass...
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EP 10: A Trumpening for Urban Policy from 2016-11-17T20:18:03
Now that a native New Yorker real estate agent is our president-elect, cities finally have the pro-urbanism voice in the White House they need! Right? NO EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE. How terrible? We...
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EP 9: Praise to the Squirrels! And Other Election Season Dystopian Fairy Tales from 2016-10-06T16:05:26
EP 7: Cities, Where Data Lurks from 2016-09-07T15:21:44
For A Lot You Got to Holler’s first-ever live podcast, we shined a light on the most hidden and obscured element of urbanism that’s changing how we interact with cities in every way: data. Invis...
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EP 8: Landscape Redemption with Ernie Wong of Site Design Group from 2016-08-31T18:46:07
The A Lot You Got to Holler Cavalcade of Firsts continues, when co-hosts Zach Mortice and Ben Schulman sit down with Ernie Wong of Site Design Group--the show's first ever landscape architect gu...
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EP 6: Designing the Machinery of Urbanism with Carol Ross Barney from 2016-06-14T19:43:09
Architecture is concert halls, museums, theaters, and all of our temples of high culture. But it's also train stations, sewer drains, and the seemingly anonymous infrastructure that makes the ci...
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EP 5: Pullman's Past, Present, and Future from 2016-05-17T14:16:49
The neighborhood of Pullman on Chicago's far South Side is a crucible of architectural, labor, industrial, and civil rights history. It's also a national monument, with big plans for renovation ...
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EP 4: Architecture is Hilarious from 2016-04-01T16:00:58
Architecture requires massive amounts of money, time, and effort to come together. It's serious business. Most of the time. But here in Chicago there are a handful of designers that work humor i...
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EP 3: Immodest Proposals for Chicago's Lakefront from 2016-02-16T19:40:02
Chicago's most valuable natural asset is its lakefront, forever free, public, and protected by law. This lakefront is so valuable, argues the architects at Port Urbanism, that we need more of it...
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EP 2: Cabrini-Green Dreams and Nightmares from 2016-01-14T15:12:47
Depending on who's telling the tale, the Cabrini-Green housing projects on Chicago's Near North Side are either patient-zero for urban dysfunction and decay, or a humble high-rise utopia, Corbus...
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EP 1: Chicago Plays Itself from 2015-12-02T00:21:16
From the 80s to the 90s, movies set and filmed in Chicago showed a city cleaving itself in half. From John Hughes suburban-kid-in-the-city hijinks to the near apocalyptic urban horror of Can...
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